New Delhi
A policeman from India’s armed border force opened fire on his colleagues on Wednesday, killing five of them before turning the gun on himself, police said.
Constable Musudul Rehman of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police opened fire on his comrades in Chhattisgarh, a restive central state long wracked by a left-wing insurgency.
“He later shot himself after shooting seven personnel,” according to a statement issued by the ITBP.
Mineral-rich Chhattisgarh is among India’s most impoverished states, where Maoist rebels have been fighting for decades for greater rights over land and resources.
